Senior Technology Consultant - Oracle

Competitive Salary + comprehensive and fully flexible benefits scheme + car + bonus

UK Wide

 

A new and fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Technology Consultant specialising in Oracle databases. The role requires a solid understanding of database management, patching, tuning and recovery in standalone and clustered environments. The role requires an agnostic approach to databases and infrastructure, with a requirement to act as a trusted technical consultant who assists customer’s select, prepare and support products within their organisation, along with technical problem resolution, the design and implementation of solutions for contracted services.

 

Responsibilities: 

·         Understand the marketplace, keeping up-to-date with current and future technologies, products and strategies.

·         Act as an interface between customer and Vendor to create appropriate solution by interpretation of the products and customer needs.

·         Assist Customers determine their Product Specifications in a consultative, Vendor independent manner.

·         Evaluate the marketplace, bench mark possible solutions and provide a recommendation to the customer, formally when required.

·         Work with other areas of the business to gather pricing, stock holding and service information.

·         Demonstrate products to Customers to help refine their requirements and facilitate a choice.

·         Obtain and review proactive Vendor information relating to product changes.

·         Assist as required with the launch of new products selected by the customer, ensuring that the solution continues to meet the requirements of the customer.

·         Take an active role in the management of product related issues.

·         Maintain all administrative documentation as requested.

·         Technically scope new services and tool sets and review regularly

 

Skills Required:

·         Specialist database knowledge with Oracle 11g

·         Extensive experience with implementing and configuring Oracle Databases.

·         Specialist knowledge of database DR solutions including Oracle Dataguard, Log Shipping or San Replication

·         Specialist knowledge of database HA environments using Oracle RAC or other clustering technologies

·         Experience of solution delivery within these area of specialism

·         Appropriate industry accreditation, OCA or OCP

·         Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

·         High level understanding of technology use, direction and market trends.

·         Ability to articulate complex technologies to a wide audience.

·         Ability to design and deliver effective presentations to large audiences.

 

Skills Desired:

·         Experience with multiple database versions

·         Experience of database version upgrades

·         Experience in deploying and configuring Weblogic

·         Experience in deploying and upgrading Oracle applications

·         Other database experience, MS SQL Server, MYSQL, Sybase, DB2

·         Appreciation of project management methods, for example PRINCE

·         Application development experience

 

 General Requirements:

·         General problem solving skills

·         Awareness of the impact of change to the business environment

·         Regular travel within the UK

 

Computacenter is Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services. We can advise customers on their IT strategy implement the most appropriate technology from a wide range of leading vendors and manage their technology infrastructures on their behalf. At every stage we make our customers’ businesses sharper by removing cost, complexity and barriers to change across their IT infrastructures.

 

Our corporate and government clients are served by offices across the UK, Germany, France, the Benelux countries, Spain and South Africa. We also serve our customers’ global requirements through our extensive partner network.

 

Key facts about Computacenter

Computacenter is Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services & solutions

• Our focus is on corporate and government organisations, typically of from 500 to 10,000 employees, and large enterprises of 10,000 or more employees.
• Over 10,000 staff are employed across the Group. 2008 adjusted profit before tax was £43.1 million. Revenues were £2.56 billion
• Over 70% of Computacenter’s Group revenue comes from services, software, and sales of enterprise products such as servers and connectivity/networking technology  

 

Computacenter is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes diversity